There is evidence to suggest that Apple's cash cow, the
iPod is dying and fewer people are buying the gizmo. iPod sales revenues are apparently dropping and being
eclipsed by revenues for Macs and iPhones.
A new market analysis conducted by stock market day
trader Andy Zaky said that iPod sales revenues have dropped from their longtime
Number 1 spot in the company to Number 3, behind Macintosh computers and
iPhones.
Zaky said iPod revenue share at Apple fell to 18 percent
in the last quarter, compared to almost 56 percent back in 2006. The iPod's doom
was long predicted and Zaky said that Apple was still firing on all cylinders
thanks to the explosive growth of the iPhone.
Technology wise too Apple seems to have lost interest in
the gizmo. Even Microsoft's Zune has more functionality at the moment. But it
is starting to look as if, like the walkman before it, people are waking up to
the fact that walking down the street with a pair of white earphones is not
exactly the coolest thing you can do.
Walking into lamposts while listening to
Coldplay is probably the most stupid act a modern human can manage short of
investing in Enron. (Don't they get the same earphones on the iPhones they migrated to from iPods? sub.ed.)
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